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This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Johanna Skibsrud
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780099558590
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Cornerstone
Imprint Windmill Books
Publication Date 7 February 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

An insightful and masterfully crafted collection of stories from the prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists These loosely connected hypnotic stories about memory and desire, from Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud, introduces us to an astonishing array of characters who time and again find themselves face to face with what they didn't know they didn't know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that he is someone other than who we think he is. A divorced father who fears estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter allows her to take the wheel of his car, realising too late that he's made a grave mistake. Taking readers from South Dakota to Paris, to Japan, into art galleries, foreign apartments, farms and beach hotels, This Will Be Difficult to Explain is a masterful and perceptive series of tales from one of fiction's brightest new voices.

Author Biography

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two collections of poetry. The Sentimentalists, her first novel, won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Reviews

The characters in these note-perfect stories tend to make their most important discoveries by stumbling against them...The writing here is an absolute joy to read; clear, economical and condensed. -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Funny, thoughtful and oblique, Skibsrud's stories explode with sudden meaning. * Independent * What is it about Canada that keeps on producing some of the best short stories writers in the world? The latest of the younger generation and the most talked about is Johanna Skibsrud. It's a name that might be hard to remember, but her stories are difficult to forget. -- Christena Appleyard * Daily Mail *